| John Milton - 1795 - 316 páginas
...her ample space, o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the urclicd roof Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 739 Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise And... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 páginas
...ample spaces, o'er the smooth 725 And level pavement. From the arched roof, Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 730 Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise, And... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 páginas
...ample space, o'er the smooth 725 And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendent by subtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude 730 Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise And... | |
| Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 páginas
...her ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asplmltus, yielded light As from a sky. The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the work some praise,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 páginas
...sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it : ——From th' arch'd roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. There are also several noble similes and allusions in the first book of... | |
| 1804 - 498 páginas
...piece of machinery represent the Pan-d*monium, where ' from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps, and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky >• •' This might be finely represented by several illuminations disposed... | |
| 1806 - 408 páginas
...ample spaces, o'er the smooth And level pavement; from the arched roof, . Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed •With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. An ADDRESS to LIGHT. (MILTON.) HAIL, holy light! offspring of Heav'n first-born,... | |
| Edward Scott Waring - 1807 - 358 páginas
...travelling over such bad and rocky ground. I often preferred from the arched roof, Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light [18] walking; but my companion, who was neither young nor active, and who even here could... | |
| Edward Scott Waring - 1807 - 356 páginas
...travelling over such bad and rocky ground. I often preferred from the arched roof, Pendant by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky. MILTON, Book 1st. walking; but my companion, who was neither young nor... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 304 páginas
...voices sweet. The artificial illuminations made in it : -From the arch'd roof Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets *, fed With Naphtha and Asphaltns, yielded light As from a sky. * Cresset, ic a blazing lijht set on a beacon, in French, crvissete,... | |
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